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** What made it even better? The man he saved was at his canonization.
** In this troper's opinion, the most heartwarming aspect of Kolbes sacrifice were his personal views on Jews. Before the war, he was a known and vocal supporter of antisemitic and nationalist movements in Poland . But in spite of those views, he still was ready for sacrifice for a man, who just few years earlier he would gladly forcibly remove from Poland.
*** ''Ahem''. Kolbe was far from an anti-Semite, even for his day. While, yes, he was concerned with converting Jews, he did not, it appears, take part in hatred for the Jews. In fact, during the war, he risked his life and the lives of his monks to shelter at least 2,000 Jews at his monastery at Niepokalanów. The closest he may have come to anti-Semitism was anti-''Zionism'', engendered by assuming ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' wasn't fake, a failing that all too many people fell to at the time. If anything, his real ire was reserved for Freemasonry, after seeing atheistic Mason mobs rioting in Rome during his seminary days. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102092413/http://www.consecration.com/default.aspx?id=30 This is one explanation of Kolbe's motivations.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141001081040/http://www.brotherzenon.com/english/biography_1.html Brother Zenon 'Zeno' Zebrowski] a Franciscan monk who truly lived to his call helping Japanese people during and after war, especially orphans. He was send there by (mentioned above) Maximilian Kolbe who stayed in Asia on mission but decided to come back to Poland to help his country. He was caught afterwards and you know the rest of his story...But Zenon remained in Japan and greatly helped people there. Please,just read his story on [https://web.archive.org/web/20141001081040/http://www.brotherzenon.com/english/biography_1.html this] website. This person inspired this troper to be kind, non-judgemental and always helpful.
* For that matter, Pius XII. Contrary to the image as a 'Nazi sympathizer', he saved many, many Jews as seen here: http://www.ptwf.org/Downloads/Did{{Dead link}}<!-- 20Pope20Pius%20XII.pdf -->
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